Three reels - the brass job has a crude ratchet (and an old terylene line on it), the little alloy job has a friction brake adjusted by the thumbscrew on the front, and the multiplier is just old bits of aluminium cut and filed to shape.
I love this sort of stuff, great to get a peak at it.
thanks, Norm
Very nice. Your dad must have dad some engineering skills.
Thanks for the comments. The old lad would have been chuffed.
Boxer,
Lovely craftmanship indeed. Got to think that there's fewer and fewer men these-days that could produce something like those reels. With engineering and proper industry all but dead, and the UK now a service industry economy (if/when the economy ever actually recovers) there can't be many now that could turn their mind and hand to designing and crafting something as wonderful as your reels. Thanks for puting them on here.
Cheers,
Ian
Those are fantastic.